1Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
2Department of Agronomy, Office of the Director of Research, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
3Department of Agronomy, Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
4Department of Agronomy, Water Technology Centre, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
5AICRP on Weed Management, Diamond Jubliee Block, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
6Department of Agricultural Engineering, AICRP on Farm Implements and Machinery Scheme (ICAR-Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University), Agricultural Research Institute, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India
*Corresponding Author: Sheri Vaishnav, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500 030, Telangana, India, Email: sherivaishnav@gmail.com
Online Published on 20 November, 2024.
The present experiment was designed to evaluate the role of emerging rice establishment systems compared with succeeding tillage practices in supporting the rooting behaviour of chickpea, blackgram and mustard grown in succession.
The current experiment was conducted in kharif followed by rabi during 2021-22 and 2022-23 in a split-split plot design with three rice establishment methods as main plots during kharif followed by two tillage systems as sub plots and in each sub plot, chickpea, blackgran and mustard were grown as sub-sub plot during rabi, after the harvest of kharif rice.
Rabi crops grown after dry direct seeded rice following conventional tillage has recorded highest root length and root volume in chickpea (23.83 and 22.97 cm; 13.57 and 13.13 cc), blackgram (20.70 and 20.13 cm; 12.43 and 12.03 cc) and mustard (37.43 and 36.27 cm; 21.50 and 20.80 cc) during successive years of study i.e., 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively.
Rice establishment systems, Root length, Root volume, Sustainability, Tillage
